Scale Roundhouse

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Any advice for more realistic scale brickwork?

I know there are modelers here. I'm ready to starting building an HO scale roundhouse from Walthers. I have the models and I am armed with an airbrush. I also have all the artistic talent one would expect from a cocker spaniel. So how would an artistic cripple such as myself approach making the brickwork a little more believable? Not necessarily weathering, but trying to get a more brick-ish appeal from the larger panels (fifteen stall with machine shop).

I've had success with two different techniques on both HO and N-scale brickwork:

1) I spray the panels the color of the mortar FIRST, let it dry for 24 hours and THEN spray the brick color. I then mix tiny amounts of the brick color with white and black and/or another color to get the variety one often sees in older brick buildings and I randomly paint bricks. THEN I take a scribe and gently etch out the brick color in the mortar lines... with care and patience you get GREAT brick panels. I will then seal it with a matte-coat and apply weathering with pastel chalks.

2) The technique that Steven D mentioned... painting the panels the BRICK color first and then floating in a wash of the mortar color. I don't like this as much because I don't often get the wash to flow correctly.

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